Word: relevantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bok rejected UCHSR's contention that the ACSR gives undue weight to financial concerns when reviewing Harvard's investments. He states, "any advice offered by the ACSR...must take into account all relevant factors, and in most situations in life, costs are relevant when trying to choose the responsible course...
University officials have repeatedly stated that they are less impressed by numbers than by persuasive arguments. If the student assembly is to be effective in influencing the University, it will have to do more than pass resolutions that appear in The Crimson. It will have to consistently formulate carefully substantiated...
"But," Ferguson added, "is it relevant to talk about the right to free speech in a country where people are starving to death?"
Now that view has undergone a dramatic change. Says West German Physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker: "Einstein's true greatness lies in the fact that he remains relevant today, in spite of the breakthroughs that have occurred since his death." Indeed, it is many of those breakthroughs that have contributed...
When Creighton goes to his volunteer work, he does not say he is from Harvard. "It's not that I'm ashamed--it's just that the fact I'm from Harvard is not relevant," he explains.